{"id":7244,"date":"2012-12-31T11:59:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T16:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=7244"},"modified":"2024-04-05T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T20:45:49","slug":"top-10-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/top-10-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>*Click on the &#8216;Lists &amp; Logs&#8217; tab to see lists from previous years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a dynamic list, so it&#8217;ll be updated each time I see a film which had its world premiere in 2012 that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor &amp; V\u00e9r\u00e9na Paravel)<\/li>\n<li>Blankets for Indians (Ken Jacobs)<\/li>\n<li>Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)<\/li>\n<li>The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)<\/li>\n<li>Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)<\/li>\n<li>Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)<\/li>\n<li>Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)<\/li>\n<li>Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)<\/li>\n<li>A Month in Thailand (Paul Negoescu)<\/li>\n<li>Tchoupitoulas (Bill Ross IV &amp; Turner Ross)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Polls Top 10<\/span><\/strong> (My favourites of the titles that appear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panix.com\/~dangelo\/nymaster12.html\">here<\/a>; will only update this until I turn in my Skandie ballot at the end of January 2013)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)<\/li>\n<li>Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)<\/li>\n<li>The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson)<\/li>\n<li>Crazy Horse (2011, Frederick Wiseman)<\/li>\n<li>The Deep Blue Sea (2011, Terence Davies)<\/li>\n<li>Cosmopolis (2012, David Cronenberg)<\/li>\n<li>You Are Here (2010, Daniel Cockburn)<\/li>\n<li>Tchoupitoulas (2012, Bill Ross IV &amp; Turner Ross)<\/li>\n<li>Elena (2011, Andrei Zvyagintsev)<\/li>\n<li>The Turin Horse (2011, B\u00e9la Tarr)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">My Top 10 Discoveries During 2012<\/span><\/strong> (only first-time viewings of films made before 2000 are eligible)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)<\/li>\n<li>Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)<\/li>\n<li>Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971, Robert Bresson)<\/li>\n<li>Some Like it Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)<\/li>\n<li>Stormy Waters [Remorques] (1941, Jean Gr\u00e9millon)<\/li>\n<li>Our Hospitality (1923, John G. Blystone &amp; Buster Keaton)<\/li>\n<li>Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)<\/li>\n<li>The Last Picture Show (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)<\/li>\n<li>Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)<\/li>\n<li>The Game (1997, David Fincher)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Other 2012 films I&#8217;ve seen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Viola (Mat\u00edas Pi\u00f1eiro) &#8211; 7.2<\/li>\n<li>You Ain\u2019t Seen Nothin\u2019 Yet! (Alain Resnais) &#8211; 7.1<\/li>\n<li>To the Wonder (Terrence Malick) &#8211; 7.0<\/li>\n<li>The Imposter (Bart Layton) &#8211; 7.0<\/li>\n<li>Amour (Michael Haneke) &#8211; 7.0<\/li>\n<li>Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan) &#8211; 6.9<\/li>\n<li>Drug War (Johnnie To) &#8211; 6.9<\/li>\n<li>Somebody Up There Likes Me (Bob Byington) &#8211; 6.9<\/li>\n<li>People\u2019s Park (Libbie Dina Cohn &amp; J.P. Sniadecki) &#8211; 6.8<\/li>\n<li>Eat Sleep Die (Gabriela Pichler) &#8211; 6.8<\/li>\n<li>Tower (Kazik Radwanski) &#8211; 6.8<\/li>\n<li>Room 237 (Rodney Ascher) &#8211; 6.7<\/li>\n<li>In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo) &#8211; 6.7<\/li>\n<li>Sister (Ursula Meier) &#8211; 6.7<\/li>\n<li>Holy Motors (Leos Carax) \u2013 6.6<\/li>\n<li>East Hastings Pharmacy (Antoine Bourges) \u2013 6.6<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt) \u2013 6.6<\/li>\n<li>The Great North Korean Picture Show (James Leong &amp; Lynn Lee) \u2013 6.6<\/li>\n<li>A Hijacking (Tobias Lindholm) &#8211; 6.6<\/li>\n<li>Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik) &#8211; 6.6<\/li>\n<li>Tabu (Miguel Gomes) &#8211; 6.5<\/li>\n<li>The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt) &#8211; 6.5<\/li>\n<li>Blankets for Indians (Ken Jacobs) &#8211; 6.5<\/li>\n<li>Sightseers (Ben Wheatley) &#8211; 6.5<\/li>\n<li>Augustine (Alice Winocour) &#8211; 6.5<\/li>\n<li>Looper (Rian Johnson) &#8211; 6.4<\/li>\n<li>No (Pablo Larra\u00edn) &#8211; 6.4<\/li>\n<li>Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho) &#8211; 6.4<\/li>\n<li>Sleepless Night (Jang Kun-Jae) &#8211; 6.4<\/li>\n<li>Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n<li>Sun Don&#8217;t Shine (Amy Seimetz) &#8211; 6.4<\/li>\n<li>Barbara (Christian Petzold) &#8211; 6.4<\/li>\n<li>Life of Pi (Ang Lee) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n<li>Bestiaire (Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9) &#8211; 6.3<\/li>\n<li>Only The Young (Elizabeth Mims &amp; Jason Tippet) &#8211; 6.3<\/li>\n<li>The Extravagant Shadows (David Gatten) &#8211; 6.3<\/li>\n<li>Man at War (Jacek B\u0142awut) &#8211; 6.3<\/li>\n<li>Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland) &#8211; 6.3<\/li>\n<li>How to Survive a Plague (David France) &#8211; 6.3<\/li>\n<li>Gebo and the Shadow (Manoel de Oliveira) &#8211; 6.2<\/li>\n<li>Vamps (Amy Heckerling) &#8211; 6.2<\/li>\n<li>When Night Falls (Ying Liang) &#8211; 6.2<\/li>\n<li>Tricked (Paul Verhoeven) &#8211; 6.1<\/li>\n<li>The Last Time I Saw Macao (Jo\u00e3o Pedro Rodrigues &amp; Jo\u00e3o Rui Guerra Da Mata) &#8211; 6.1<\/li>\n<li>Atomic Age (H\u00e9l\u00e9na Klotz) &#8211; 6.1<\/li>\n<li>Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas) &#8211; 6.1<\/li>\n<li>Greatest Hits (Nicol\u00e1s Pereda) &#8211; 6.1<\/li>\n<li>Fragments of Kubelka (Martina Kudl\u00e1cek) &#8211; 6.1<\/li>\n<li>The Queen of Versailles (Lauren Greenfield) &#8211; 6.1<\/li>\n<li>First Cousin Once Removed (Alan Berliner) &#8211; 6.1<\/li>\n<li>Keep the Lights On (Ira Sachs) &#8211; 6.1<\/li>\n<li>The Angels\u2019 Share (Ken Loach) &#8211; 6.1<\/li>\n<li>The Comedy (Rick Alverson) &#8211; 6.0<\/li>\n<li>Stemple Pass (James Benning) &#8211; 6.0<\/li>\n<li>differently, Molussia (Nicolas Rey) &#8211; 6.0<\/li>\n<li>the war (James Benning) &#8211; 6.0<\/li>\n<li>Reality (Matteo Garrone) &#8211; 6.0<\/li>\n<li>Aliyah (Elie Wajeman) &#8211; 6.0<\/li>\n<li>Argo (Ben Affleck) &#8211; 6.0<\/li>\n<li>38 Witnesses (Lucas Belvaux) &#8211; 6.0<\/li>\n<li>This is 40 (Judd Apatow) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n<li>Paradise: Faith (Ulrich Seidl) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n<li>Red Hook Summer (Spike Lee) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a Disaster (Todd Berger) &#8211; 5.9<\/li>\n<li>The Dead Man and Being Happy (Javier Robollo) &#8211; 5.9<\/li>\n<li>Skyfall (Sam Mendes) &#8211; 5.9<\/li>\n<li>West of Memphis (Amy Berg) &#8211; 5.9<\/li>\n<li>21 Jump Street (Phil Lord &amp; Chris Miller) &#8211; 5.9<\/li>\n<li>Much Ado About Nothing (Joss Whedon) &#8211; 5.8<\/li>\n<li>The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg) &#8211; 5.8<\/li>\n<li>Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (Lav Diaz) &#8211; 5.8<\/li>\n<li>The Pervert\u2019s Guide to Ideology (Sophie Fiennes) &#8211; 5.8<\/li>\n<li>Starlet (Sean Baker) &#8211; 5.8<\/li>\n<li>Compliance (Craig Zobel) &#8211; 5.8<\/li>\n<li>Passion (Brian De Palma) &#8211; 5.7<\/li>\n<li>Leones (Jazm\u00edn L\u00f3pez) &#8211; 5.7<\/li>\n<li>Another Night on Earth (David Mu\u00f1oz) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n<li>Not Fade Away (David Chase) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n<li>Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n<li>Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell) &#8211; 5.7<\/li>\n<li>Jayne Mansfield\u2019s Car (Billy Bob Thornton) &#8211; 5.7<\/li>\n<li>Thursday till Sunday (Dominga Sotomayor Castillo) &#8211; 5.7<\/li>\n<li>Everybody in Our Family (Radu Jude) &#8211; 5.7<\/li>\n<li>Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley) &#8211; 5.7<\/li>\n<li>Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl) &#8211; 5.6<\/li>\n<li>The Central Park Five (Ken Burns, David McMahon &amp; Sarah Burns) &#8211; 5.6<\/li>\n<li>Camp 14: Total Control Zone (Marc Wiese) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n<li>The Great Cinema Party (Raya Martin) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n<li>Wanderlust (David Wain) &#8211; 5.6<\/li>\n<li>United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (Jim Hubbard) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n<li>3 (Pablo Stoll Ward) &#8211; 5.6<\/li>\n<li>The Sheik and I (Caveh Zahedi) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n<li>Circle in the Sand (Michael Robinson) &#8211; 5.5<\/li>\n<li>Just the Wind (Benedek Fliegauf) &#8211; 5.5<\/li>\n<li>Fuck for Forest (Micha\u0142 Marczak) &#8211; 5.5<\/li>\n<li>Memories Look at Me (Song Fang) &#8211; 5.5<\/li>\n<li>Gimme the Loot (Adam Leon) &#8211; 5.5<\/li>\n<li>Caesar Must Die (Paolo &amp; Vittorio Taviani) &#8211; 5.5<\/li>\n<li>The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan) &#8211; 5.5<\/li>\n<li>Detropia (Heidi Ewing &amp; Rachel Grady) &#8211; 5.5<\/li>\n<li>Soldier\/Citizen (Silvina Landesman) &#8211; 5.5<\/li>\n<li>Night Across the Street (Ra\u00fal Ruiz) &#8211; 5.4<\/li>\n<li>Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Aleksei Fedorchenko) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n<li>Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh) &#8211; 5.4<\/li>\n<li>Dredd (Pete Travis) &#8211; 5.4<\/li>\n<li>Flight of the Butterflies (Mike Slee) &#8211; 5.4<\/li>\n<li>Student (Darezhan Omirbaev) &#8211; 5.4<\/li>\n<li>Danube Hospital (Nikolaus Geyrhalter) &#8211; 5.4<\/li>\n<li>Broken (Rufus Norris) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n<li>Maintenance (Adele Horne) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n<li>The Three Stooges (Peter &amp; Bobby Farrelly) &#8211; 5.4<\/li>\n<li>Gone Fishing (Carlos Sorin) &#8211; 5.4<\/li>\n<li>I Declare War (Jason Lapeyre &amp; Robert Wilson) &#8211; 5.3<\/li>\n<li>Perret in France and Algeria (Heinz Emigholz) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n<li>Centro Hist\u00f3rico (Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki, Pedro Costa, V\u00edctor Erice, &amp; Manoel de Oliveira) &#8211; 5.3<\/li>\n<li>Winter, Go Away! (Sofia Rodkevich, Anton Seregin, Madina Mustafina, Elena Khoreva, Anna Moiseenko, Dmitry Kubasov, Askold Kurov, Nadezhda Leonteva, Alexey Zhirayakov, &amp; Denis Klebleev) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n<li>Brave (Mark Andrews &amp; Brenda Chapman) &#8211; 5.3<\/li>\n<li>Elena (Petra Costa) &#8211; 5.3<\/li>\n<li>Fly with the Crane (Li Ruijun) &#8211; 5.3<\/li>\n<li>A Liar\u2019s Autobiography \u2013 The Untrue Story of Monty Python\u2019s Graham Chapman (Ben Timlett, Bill Jones, &amp; Jeff Simpson) &#8211; 5.3<\/li>\n<li>Mystery (Lou Ye) &#8211; 5.3<\/li>\n<li>Museum Hours (Jem Cohen) &#8211; 5.2<\/li>\n<li>The Gatekeepers (Dror Moreh) &#8211; 5.2<\/li>\n<li>Savages (Oliver Stone) &#8211; 5.2<\/li>\n<li>Mud (Jeff Nichols) &#8211; 5.2<\/li>\n<li>The Pirogue (Moussa Toure) &#8211; 5.1<\/li>\n<li>Pursuit of Loneliness (Laurence Thrush) &#8211; 5.1<\/li>\n<li>Farewell, My Queen (Beno\u00eet Jacquot) &#8211; 5.1<\/li>\n<li>All That You Possess (Bernard \u00c9mond) &#8211; 5.1<\/li>\n<li>Marina Ambramovic: The Artist is Present (Matthew Akers) &#8211; 5.1<\/li>\n<li>Project X (Nima Nourizadeh) &#8211; 5.1<\/li>\n<li>Jackie (Antoinette Beumer) &#8211; 5.1<\/li>\n<li>Araf &#8211; Somewhere In Between (Ye\u015fim Ustao\u011flu) &#8211; 5.0<\/li>\n<li>Low Tide (Roberto Minervini) &#8211; 5.0<\/li>\n<li>Simon Killer (Antonio Campos) &#8211; 5.0<\/li>\n<li>Anna Karenina (Joe Wright) &#8211; 5.0<\/li>\n<li>Les Invisibles (S\u00e9bastien Lifshitz) &#8211; 5.0<\/li>\n<li>Byzantium (Neil Jordan) &#8211; 5.0<\/li>\n<li>The Last Station (Catalina Vergara &amp; Cristian Soto) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n<li>Final Cut \u2013 Ladies &amp; Gentlemen (Gy\u00f6rgy P\u00e1lfi) &#8211; 5.0<\/li>\n<li>The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, &amp; Anonymous) &#8211; 5.0<\/li>\n<li>Clip (Maja Milo\u0161) &#8211; 5.0<\/li>\n<li>The Iceman (Ariel Vromen) &#8211; 5.0<\/li>\n<li>Ernest and Celestine (St\u00e9phane Aubier, Vincent Patar, &amp; Benjamin Renner) &#8211; 4.9<\/li>\n<li>The We and the I (Michel Gondry) &#8211; 4.9<\/li>\n<li>Blackbird (Jason Buxton) &#8211; 4.9<\/li>\n<li>Journal de France (Claudine Nougaret &amp; Raymond Depardon) &#8211; 4.9<\/li>\n<li>Future My Love (Maja Borg) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n<li>Miss Lovely (Ashim Ahluwalia) &#8211; 4.9<\/li>\n<li>Blancanieves (Pablo Berger) &#8211; 4.9<\/li>\n<li>Ginger and Rosa (Sally Potter) &#8211; 4.9<\/li>\n<li>Jeff (Chris James Thompson) &#8211; 4.9<\/li>\n<li>Marley (Kevin McDonald) &#8211; 4.9<\/li>\n<li>Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson) &#8211; 4.8<\/li>\n<li>Dormant Beauty (Marco Bellocchio) &#8211; 4.8<\/li>\n<li>Camille Rewinds (No\u00e9mie Lvovsky) &#8211; 4.8<\/li>\n<li>Lore (Cate Shortland) &#8211; 4.8<\/li>\n<li>Once Upon a Time Was I, Ver\u00f4nica (Marcelo Gomes) &#8211; 4.8<\/li>\n<li>Ship of Theseus (Anand Gandhi) &#8211; 4.8<\/li>\n<li>Fill the Void (Rama Burshtein) &#8211; 4.8<\/li>\n<li>Chronicle (Josh Trank) &#8211; 4.8<\/li>\n<li>Shut Up and Play the Hits (Will Lovelace &amp; Dylan Southern) &#8211; 4.8<\/li>\n<li>Bullet to the Head (Walter Hill) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n<li>Our Children (Joachim Lafosse) &#8211; 4.7<\/li>\n<li>Confession of a Child of the Century (Sylvie Verheyde) &#8211; 4.7<\/li>\n<li>Once Every Day (Richard Foreman) &#8211; 4.7<\/li>\n<li>In the Fog (Sergei Loznitsa) &#8211; 4.7<\/li>\n<li>White Epilepsy (Philippe Grandrieux) &#8211; 4.7<\/li>\n<li>No, I am Not a Toad, I am a Turtle! (Elke Marh\u00f6fer) &#8211; 4.7<\/li>\n<li>The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (Davide Manuli) &#8211; 4.7<\/li>\n<li>Nights with Theodore (S\u00e9bastien Betbeder) &#8211; 4.6<\/li>\n<li>Age Is\u2026 (Stephen Dwoskin) &#8211; 4.6<\/li>\n<li>Lincoln (Steven Spielberg) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n<li>The Lebanese Rocket Society (Joana Hadji Thomas &amp; Khalil Joreige) &#8211; 4.6<\/li>\n<li>Three Worlds (Catherine Corsini) &#8211; 4.6<\/li>\n<li>On the Road (Walter Salles) &#8211; 4.6<\/li>\n<li>War Witch (Kim Nguyen) &#8211; 4.6<\/li>\n<li>The Paperboy (Lee Daniels) &#8211; 4.5<\/li>\n<li>Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas) &#8211; 4.5<\/li>\n<li>Flight (Robert Zemeckis) &#8211; 4.5<\/li>\n<li>Katy Perry: Part of Me (Dan Cutforth &amp; Jane Lipsitz) &#8211; 4.5<\/li>\n<li>The Company You Keep (Robert Redford) &#8211; 4.5<\/li>\n<li>Blondie (Jesper Ganslandt) &#8211; 4.5<\/li>\n<li>In the House (Fran\u00e7ois Ozon) &#8211; 4.4<\/li>\n<li>Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer &amp; Lana &amp; Andy Wachowski) &#8211; 4.4<\/li>\n<li>31st Haul (Denis Klebleev) &#8211; 4.4<\/li>\n<li>Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard) &#8211; 4.4<\/li>\n<li>La Sirga (William Vega) &#8211; 4.4<\/li>\n<li>Motorway (Soi Cheang) &#8211; 4.3<\/li>\n<li>Imagine (Andrzej Jakimowski) &#8211; 4.3<\/li>\n<li>Aqu\u00ed y all\u00e1 (Antonio M\u00e9ndez Esparza) &#8211; 4.3<\/li>\n<li>Capital (Costa-Gavras) &#8211; 4.3<\/li>\n<li>Lawless (John Hillcoat) &#8211; 4.3<\/li>\n<li>Inori (Pedro Gonz\u00e1lez-Rubio) &#8211; 4.2<\/li>\n<li>Beyond the Hill (Emin Alper) &#8211; 4.2<\/li>\n<li>Promised Land (Gus Van Sant) &#8211; 4.2<\/li>\n<li>The Secret Disco Revolution (Jamie Kastner) &#8211; 4.2<\/li>\n<li>Children of Sarajevo (Aida Begic) &#8211; 4.1<\/li>\n<li>Patience (After Sebald) (Grant Gee) \u2013 4.1<\/li>\n<li>Marvel\u2019s The Avengers (Joss Whedon) &#8211; 4.1<\/li>\n<li>Pieta (Ki-duk Kim) &#8211; 4.1<\/li>\n<li>Three Sisters (Wang Bing) &#8211; 4.0<\/li>\n<li>The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky) &#8211; 4.0<\/li>\n<li>Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (Laurent Cantet) &#8211; 4.0<\/li>\n<li>The Cremator (Peng Tao) &#8211; 3.9<\/li>\n<li>Pusher (Luis Prieto) &#8211; 3.9<\/li>\n<li>Antiviral (Brandon Cronenberg) &#8211; 3.9<\/li>\n<li>Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin) &#8211; 3.8<\/li>\n<li>Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (Alison Klayman) &#8211; 3.7<\/li>\n<li>The End of Time (Peter Mettler) &#8211; 3.6<\/li>\n<li>Lines of Wellington (Valeria Sarmiento) &#8211; 3.6<\/li>\n<li>Tim and Eric\u2019s Billion Dollar Movie (Tim Heidecker &amp; Eric Wareheim) &#8211; 3.6<\/li>\n<li>Ethel (Rory Kennedy) &#8211; 3.5<\/li>\n<li>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Peter Jackson)  &#8211; 3.4<\/li>\n<li>Wildness (Wu Tsang) &#8211; 3.4<\/li>\n<li>Hyde Park on Hudson (Roger Michell) &#8211; 3.4<\/li>\n<li>Yellow (Nick Cassavetes) &#8211; 3.4<\/li>\n<li>7 Days in Havana (Benicio del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Gaspar No\u00e9, Juan Carlos Tabio, &amp; Laurent Cantet) &#8211; 3.4<\/li>\n<li>After the Battle (Yousry Nasrallah) &#8211; 3.3<\/li>\n<li>The Suicide Shop (Patrice Leconte) \u2013 3.2<\/li>\n<li>Dangerous Liaisons (Hur Jin-Ho) &#8211; 3.1<\/li>\n<li>Bwakaw (Jun Robles Lana) &#8211; 3.0<\/li>\n<li>An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (Terence Nance) &#8211; 3.0<\/li>\n<li>London &#8211; The Modern Babylon (Julien Temple) &#8211; 2.9<\/li>\n<li>The Place Beyond the Pines (Derek Cianfrance) &#8211; 2.8<\/li>\n<li>Nobody Walks (Ry Russo-Young) &#8211; 2.7<\/li>\n<li>At Any Price (Ramin Bahrani) &#8211; 2.6<\/li>\n<li>Mekong Hotel (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) &#8211; 2.6<\/li>\n<li>L (Babis Makridis) &#8211; 2.5<\/li>\n<li>Jump (Kieron J. Walsh) &#8211; 2.4<\/li>\n<li>Kinshasa Kids (Marc-Henri Wajnberg) &#8211; 2.3<\/li>\n<li>The Dream and the Silence (Jaime Rosales) &#8211; 2.3<\/li>\n<li>The Taste of Money (Im Sang-soo) &#8211; 2.0<\/li>\n<li>After Luc\u00eda (Michel Franco) &#8211; 1.7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Click on the &#8216;Lists &amp; Logs&#8217; tab to see lists from previous years. This is a dynamic list, so it&#8217;ll be updated each time I see a film which had its world premiere in 2012 that is better than at least one of the films already on the list. 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